Women's Golf Headline

Tuesday February 10, 2009UF moves up to seventh at Northrop Grumman

The Lady
Gator golf team moved up three spots on the leader board to seventh place on
Tuesday in the second round of the Northrop Grumman Regional in Palos Verdes
Estates, Calif. The squad improved their first round score by 16 shots, firing
a 25-over par 309 to have a 36-hole total of 634 (+66).

“I thought
the team played very solid today,” said head coach Jill Briles-Hinton. “This is
a tough course and the short game becomes really important and I thought we did
really well today.”

Sophomore Jessica
Yadloczky
(Casselberry, Fla.) matched her first-round score with another 75 (+4) to lead
the Gators for the second day in a row. Yadloczky, currently in a tie for
5th place, collected three birdies on the afternoon. Her total score of
eight-over par 150 is only three shots out of second place.

“Jessica
turned in another solid performance,” said Coach Briles-Hinton. “She is tied
for sixth which is very good in this field on this course.”

Freshman Andrea
Watts (Bradenton,
Fla.) finished one shot behind Yadloczky in the second round with a five-over
par 76. She improved her score from Monday by six shots and is tied for 29th at
16-over par 158 for the tournament.

Another
true freshman, Evan Jensen (Belleair, Fla.), shot a second-round 77 to jump up 11
spots on the leader board into a tie for 34th at 159 (+17). Redshirt sophomore Lauren
Uzelatz (Lakeland,
Fla.) improved her score by five strokes with an 81 (+10). Her total of 25-over
par 167 is tied for 66th place.

“Our team
needs to continue to focus on the goals that we set coming into the
tournament,” said Coach Briles-Hinton. “But I’m still happy with our
performance today.”

Arizona
State remains on top of the leaderboard at 599 (+31) for the tournament and the
Sun Devils’ Juliana Murcia remains the only player under par at one-under 141.

The Lady
Gators tee off for the final round of the Northrop Grumman Regional on
Wednesday at 11 a.m ET. Live scoring is available at www.GatorZone.com and www.golfstat.com.